PRESS RELEASE July 2014 Models Xavier Veilhan 19/09/2014 22/02/2015

PRESS RELEASE JUly 2014 Models Xavier Veilhan 19/09/2014 22/02/2015

A major figure of the international art scene, Xavier Veilhan These artefacts prolong the research on modernist space has developed an approach in line with both formal classicism and constructivist aesthetics that irrigates Xavier Veilhan’s and high technology. His works come in multiple forms creative work. The slender shapes, open structures, (sculpture, photography, performance, video, environment, and parabolas of the 3D drafts evoke both algorithmic exhibition, etc.) and question the way images are composed representations and the icons of modernism, from Naum and presented. Gabo to the Philips Pavilion designed by Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis, and from the Sternberg brothers to Mathias This is the first time that the models featured at the Goeritz. Turbulences - Frac Centre are shown outside the artist’s studio or the sets of his films and performances. They are The exhibition reveals the proximity between these objects neither artwork nor really models, but sheer construction and historical and contemporary works from the Frac Centre’s exercises which stem from a research process that is free from collection, from David George Emmerich’s researches on all predetermination. As bearers of potential creations, these morphogenesis to Biothing’s digital experimentations. abstract objects can be seen as the skeletons of figurations to come. The way the “Models” are presented evokes the exhibition of Russian constructivist works at the third Obmokhu show in The poorness of the materials and construction methods May 1921, which, among others, featured Ioganson’s tensile provide a counterpoint to the drafting process that the structures. artist carries out on screen before final crafting. Through Arranged in an original scenography, midway between a their simplicity and freedom of their implementation, cabinet and a workshop, Xavier Veilhan’s “Models” reveal the these multiple versions reintroduce the question of a third artist’s taste for research and experimentation. dimension. PRESS RELEASE JULY 2014

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Xavier Veilhan was born in 1963 and lives and works in Paris. EVENT He successively trained at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (1982-1983), the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin (with Georg Baselitz) and the Institut AT THE Turbulences des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques in Paris, under the th supervision of Pontus Hulten (1989-1990). Saturday 17 January

His work has been shown in major institutions worldwide 5:00pm and has been the subject of many monographic exhibitions. Turbulent SATURDAY In 2009, he set up a large-scale exhibition at the Château de Versailles. CARTE BLANCHE TO XAVIER VEILHAN Projection of François Combin’s film “Architectones”, He has collaborated with artists of all backgrounds, such as followed by a discussion between Xavier Veilhan, François Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Daniel Buren, Sébastien Tellier, Perrin, and Jean-Louis Cohen, who will retrace the and the band AIR. artist’s series of exhibitions in iconic venues of modern architecture. Since 2012, he has developed “Architectones”, a series of exhibitions that highlight the permanent dialogue between art and architecture, and the title of which is a tribute to Kazimir Malevich. On the occasion of this project, he invested various landmarks of modernist heritage: in Los Angeles, Richard Neutra’s VDL Research House(1932-1964), Pierre Koenig’s CSH 21 (1958), and John Lautner’s Sheats Goldstein Residence (1963); in France, the MAMO on the roof of Le Corbusier’s Radiant City in Marseille, and Claude Parent and Paul Virilio’s Sainte Bernadette du Banlay Church in Nevers (1966); in Moscow, the Konstantin Melnikov’s Melnikov House (1929). He brought this series to a close with Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion (1929). An “Architectones” catalogue published by SPA (Los Angeles) will be released in October 2014, alongside an identically named full-length film directed by François Combin/URUBU.

His latest performance, “SYSTEMA OCCAM” (created in 2013), revolves around a composition by Eliane Radigue, and will be presented from 13th to 16th September in the gardens of the Eugène Delacroix Museum (Paris).

Xavier Veilhan is represented by the Perrotin Gallery, Andréhn- Schiptjenko (Stockholm), and 313 Art Project (Seoul).

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